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#59847 - 07/31/04 06:20 PM multi-tasking!
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	Is this the right forum for this? Not sure! I can't help but mention this topic. I think boomer women invented it and I wish we never did. How many women are pros at this? Any examples? My office is in my home so I work, do laundry, make dinner, and play secretary for everyone in the house by answering the 100 phone calls we receive daily. I talk on the phone while folding laundry, cleaning, cooking, gardening... just so I can steal a couple minutes with my sisters or friends. This is bad, but I find myself calling people I need to catch up with while I'm driving. It's a time saver. Please tell me I'm nuts...Maybe I'll listen and stop this craziness. Anyone else multi-task? Please say yes!
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#59848 - 07/31/04 06:34 PM Re: multi-tasking!
jawjaw Da Queen Registered: 07/02/03 Posts: 12025 Loc: Alabama	Of course! However, having caller ID on my computer helps with the phone messages, (CallWave.com). I also keep my cell phone next to the computer with a headset and talk, write and eat Oreo's all at one time. So yeah, I do it.
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#59849 - 07/31/04 06:49 PM Re: multi-tasking!
smilinize Member Registered: 11/08/03 Posts: 3512 Loc: outer space	Hey, I have a recumbent bike. It's kind of like a recliner with pedals. My husband fixed a thing that my laptop velcros to and connected a phone line nearby. I've discovered that I can email, talk on the phone, exercise, watch television, drink a coke and eat a pizza all at once. Doesn't do a thing for my figure, but it's great for the rest of me. Onward. smile
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#59850 - 07/31/04 10:41 PM Re: multi-tasking!
Louisa Member Registered: 07/11/04 Posts: 2132 Loc: MA	And corporate America uses it as one of their biggest buzz words thinking they invented it. Women have been multi-tasking since the beginning of time. Boomers sure did it. I know I did in the early 70s and 80s raising kids. Laundry, shopping, doctor appointments, cooking, sewing, dropping kids off here and there, picking up dry cleaning and taking the dog to the vet. All in a days work. Still do it now, but with a full-time job, my writing and all my hobbies and a husband who helps a lot.
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#59851 - 08/01/04 12:16 AM Re: multi-tasking!
Toni Member Registered: 12/11/03 Posts: 504 Loc: Pennsylvania	I'd say that my office is my multi-task room. I do my writing there, make up lists for the week, give and receive phone calls while on the computer, do some organizing of the room while I'm waiting on incoming phone calls or email, write out bills and do some spot cleaning in near-by rooms. Saves time and I get a lot done. We boomers know how to save time and organize our days...
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#59852 - 08/01/04 06:06 PM Re: multi-tasking!
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	smile, what a visual. I love it!
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#59853 - 08/01/04 10:03 PM Re: multi-tasking!
Toni Member Registered: 12/11/03 Posts: 504 Loc: Pennsylvania	Smile, That's what I call "cool multi-tasking!" Way to go....
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#59854 - 08/02/04 02:22 AM Re: multi-tasking!
chatty lady Writer Registered: 02/24/04 Posts: 20267 Loc: Nevada	I've been multi tasking for so long I wouldn't know how to spend one leisure moment I might find in a day. Cooking meals ahead, some time as many as three different ones. Laundry, computer, telephones, two of them, different numbers...Feeding and watering ALL my fostered animals and my own, paying bills, arranging my plants, re-potting etc. Doing hair, nails is actually a treat for me after soaking in a tub. Good God, no wonder I feel frazzled half the time....
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#59855 - 08/02/04 08:41 PM Re: multi-tasking!
Maggie Member Registered: 02/19/03 Posts: 765 Loc: Oregon	So they call it multi tasking. Like the name. I tried to tell my family women can do five things at once. They didn't believe I think because men don't have a clue. I turn on the TV, do my crafts, eat, play with kitten and clean up afterwards am always thinking about something too. Or cleaning house with dishwasher on. cleaning elsewhere listening to something and talking on the telephone,playing with kitten. Maggie
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#59856 - 08/02/04 10:08 PM Re: multi-tasking!
Dotsie Founder Registered: 07/09/08 Posts: 23647 Loc: Maryland	I've always thought it would be intersting to write down every little task I do in a day, but I've never had the time to do such a menial thing!
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